寒夜 COLD NIGHTS （中英對照）

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, Pa Chin (1904-2005) has long been one of the leading figures of twentieth-century Chinese Literature. He is best known for the influential trilogy Family, Spring, and Autumn. Cold Nights, twice adapted into films (Cantonese in 1955 and Mandarin in 1984), grapples with the emotional entanglement of Chinese intellectuals with the Japanese invasion of China as background. It has been widely hailed by critics as another masterpiece by Pa Chin.

2011年獲提名角逐諾貝爾文學獎的巴金(1904-2005)，本名李芾甘，二十世紀中國文學重鎮。長篇小說《家》、《春》、《秋》至今風行，影響深遠。1947年面世的力作《寒夜》集中處理新舊交替間知識份子的感情轇轕，並深入描繪抗戰時期大後方的生活，對時代與人物的互動，有罕見的透視。《寒夜》更曾先後兩次搬上銀幕(1955年粵語版；1984年普通話版)。

This bilingual edition contains a new critical introduction by Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Nathan K. Mao, the translator, is Professor of English at Shippensburg State University, Pennsylvania. Liu Ts’un-yan, the co-translator, is Professor Emeritus in Chinese at the Australian National University.

中文大學出版社刊行的中英對照本邀得美國加州大學聖地牙哥校區歷史系畢克偉教授特撰導讀，重新評估這部長篇的獨到之處。譯者茅國權為美國賓夕凡尼亞州Shippensburg州立大學英文系教授，柳存仁為已故澳洲國立大學榮休教授。

Pa Chin, born in 1904 in Chengtu, Szechwan, experienced the social turmoil that accompanied the birth of modern China and produced a generation of youth committed to revolution. A self-professed anarchist, he found political inspiration in the writings of Kropotkin and of Emma Goldman, with whom he corresponded, and literary inspiration in Russian fiction. He probed the dynamics of social institutions during a time of radical change and, through the medium of fiction, eloquently communicated his vision of China's character. Pa Chin lives in the People's Republic of China, where he is a professional writer.

Nathan K. Mao was born in Kweiyang, Kweichou Province, China. He was educated at New Asia College (Hong Kong), Yale University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin (Platteville) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a recipient of the 1978-1979 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Distinguished Faculty Awards. Dr. Mao has written Li Yu (Boston, 1977) and Pa Chin (Boston, 1978). He is an editor of Classical Chinese Fiction and Modern Chinese Fiction (Boston, 1978, 1981), as well as the translator of Li Yu's Twelve Towers (Hong Kong, 1975) and co-translator of Fortress Besieged (Bloomington, 1979). At present, Dr. Mao is Professor of English at Shippensburg State University, Pennsylvania.

Liu Ts'un-yan is Professor Emeritus in Chinese at the Australian National University and had been a visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard. With a Ph.D. and a D.Litt. from the University of London, he is also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Among his many writings in English are Buddhist and Taoist Influence on Chinese Novels, Chinese Popular Fiction in Two London Libraries, Wu Ch'eng-en: His Life and Career and Selected Papers from the Hall of Harmonious Wind. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1992.